Decided to take a rare day off and go down to the beach for some arrowheading and detecting

[Micheal_R]

First to Braceys Point to search for some arrowheads. Was not there for 10 minutes and found this little bird point. Tried for another 30-40 minutes with only common knife to show for it.

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Then over to Old Edgewood for some detecting. Found two 40s pennies, on 50's penny and this 1874 Quarter. not the best of shape... but it sure looked good in my hand when I unearthed it. :

Hope that everyone else had a good day

Fair winds

Mikie

 

[Ron J]

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[Sunny]

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[Royal]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

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[david(tx)]

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[WillyP]

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[George-CT]

a little for you guys.... No bare ground here yet except at the ocean shoreline..... Is a bird point for birds or is that just name for it for being so small?

Geo

 

[Micheal_R]

That was the first day in about 7 weeks that I have taken off. Not much more news on Alice yet. [Thank our lovely medical system]. We did see a specialist. I will give him this. He did say that , although he was certain that he could repair Alice's hip and knee, he told us that there was a new guy in town who was that much better than him....... hence a referral.

So, while it is a case of hurry up and wait, we do seem to be getting to the top of the chain. :

By the By George,..... a bird point is exactly that, used for birds. Generally you can tell by the size.. nice and small.

Fair winds

Mikie

 

[Cupajo]

Along the Texas shore a person can often find flint points. I found this interesting, because flint is not common until you travel a long way inland. The native Americans living in the area were able to trade edibles for these and other items. The flints were used almost like money is used today.

The Carancahua tribe was settled along the stretch of shoreline I would frequent and as the only cannibals living in this country at that time, really caused the early settlers a lot of trouble.

It didn't take the European settlers long to put a stop to that. One of the last leaders of that tribe was called Little Wolf and a place on the Carancahua Bay still bears his name, "Wolf's Point".

Over the years I fished that shoreline from time to time and found flints there once in a while. They really stood out lying there, because they were the only stone to be seen among the sand and shells.

Cupajo